Levine adds, “She can be the grieving mother, the young virgin, the goddess figure. Just as Jesus is the ideal man, Mary is the ideal woman.” During the Reformation (1517-1648), the idea of ...

Before concluding his Wednesday audience and imparting his paternal blessing for pilgrims, the Holy Father concluded his ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...

A small statue of the Virgin Mary with purportedly miraculous origins ... refer to Our Lady of Charity as "Ochun," a goddess of female sensuality and maternity, said the Associated Press.

Popular Haitian representations of this spirit look exactly like the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, which is an ancient and famous icon of the Virgin Mary housed in the Jasna Góra Monastery in Poland ...

But while the Parthenon was dedicated to the goddess upon its completion in ... later the Latin cathedral of Parthenos Maria, the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Athens. The Parthenon's function as ...

The Feast of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on August 15 each year. The Feast commemorates the repose (dormition and in the Greek kimisis) or ...

Some see it as glorifying Mary to the level of a goddess. Others believe that it ... "The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege ...

FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A sculptor has almost completed a nearly 10-meter-tall wooden statue of Virgin Mary that he started carving 40 years ago to pray for the souls of thousands of people ...

The Portuguese word for "goddess," Eloa was an angel of compassion in Alfred ... It's also used in one of the Virgin Mary's titles: Maria de Gloria. The glowing circle of light commonly shown in ...

Only in the remote mountain fastness of Nepal did the practice of glorifying prepubescent girls (in Nepali the word “kumari” means “virgin girl”) as living goddesses for years at a time ...

More than five million pilgrims from around the world visit this shrine to the Virgin Mary every year to drink ... that is worshipped by Hindus as a goddess. Bruce and the pilgrims travel on ...